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Posts tagged as “North Dakota”

Workforce Summit Blah Blah Blah: Just Pay Better Wages!

As Governor Daugaard begins dog-and-pony-showing the results of his Workforce Summits, newly Hillsified Seth Tupper takes a look at the tight labor supply in Rapid City. Predictably, we get some smoke about how far a dollar stretches in South Dakota.…

North Dakota Oil Boom Not Keeping up with University Repairs

The Bakken oil boom is making North Dakota rich! Too bad its universities are falling apart: Students returning this week will attend classes in buildings without adequate ventilation or fire detection systems and in historic landmarks with buckling foundations. A…

North Dakota Moves Petition Deadline Up 30 Days for More Review Time

The Walker and Bosworth petition frauds suggest the need to change our election calendar to allow more time to review nominating petitions. Our North Dakota neighbors just voted to change their calendar for ballot measure petitions. In last week's primary,…

North Dakota Medicaid Expansion Brings Back Patients, Saves Lives

An eager reader forwards this article showing how Medicaid expansion is good for Dakota people... North Dakota people, that is: The company providing coverage for North Dakota's Medicaid expansion told state lawmakers Wednesday that many residents who haven't seen a…

Fracking Increases Drugs, Crime, and Papal Ire

Two reasons to hope the geologists are right and that fracking the Bakken won't expand from North Dakota to South Dakota: 1. The feds just designated Williams County, at the heart of the North Dakota oil patch as a "High…